Chloé Dygert has confirmed she is going to race on at the 2024 Paris Olympics regardless of her high-speed crash in Saturday’s time trial.
A gold medal favorite, the American was simply 5 seconds down on eventual winner Grace Brown of Australia on the first intermediate time verify. However her crash on the rain-soaked metropolis centre course value her important time and confidence. She ultimately completed 1:32 slower than Brown with Britain’s Anna Henderson one second sooner than Dygert to take the silver medal.
Dygert sat on her bike to maneuver by way of the end space and media zone after the time trial and was clearly in ache.
US nationwide coach Kristin Armstrong confirmed that her damage was on the identical knee as her horrible crash on the 2021 World championships in Italy however was assured that Dygert would journey the ladies’s street race subsequent Sunday after which anchor the US girls’s workforce pursuit on the monitor.
“She’s a competitor and she or he’s not going to let a lot take her down. She’s excited for the street race,” Armstrong stated of Dygert.
“She took the day without work however tomorrow she’s going to exit for a simple spin after which on Wednesday we count on her again on the monitor. She’s planning on using the street race, she’s wanting ahead to it.”
Dygert spoke to American tv channel NBC about how her crash wrecked her possibilities of profitable a gold medal within the time trial and her dedication to bounce again within the street race.
“I might both sit right here and quit or I might proceed on, that is what I’m going to do,” she informed NBC.
“I might sit right here and pout all day lengthy. Of course I’m mad. We do not practice to lose, we do not practice to face on some other step however the high step. I’m actually harm.
“But I’m simply trusting God’s plan and God’s course of right here and taking all of the energy that he is giving me to proceed on. I’m gonna use that going into Sunday’s race.”
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